GeoFrame 2012 SP 2 Release Notes - Ocean - Schlumberger

Version 2012_SP_2
May 2013
Release Notes
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Proprietary Notice
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Charisma Mapping, CMR, Component Property Editor, Computation Manager, CPS-
3, DataManager, ELANPlus, Framework 3D, GeoCube, GeoFeature Map,
GeoFrame, GeoViz, GeoViz Explore, IES, IESX, IMain, IMAP, InDepth, Log
Property Mapping, LPM, Main23D, Main2D, Main3D, MapEdit, MapPlot, MAXIS,
ModelBuilder, MultiWell ResSum, NODAL, PetroStat, PetroView, PetroView Plus,
PrePlus, Residual Processing, ResSum, SCOPE, SEIS2D, SEIS2DV, SEIS3D,
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Stanford Center for Reservoir Forecasting.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Copyright and Trademark Information
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Proprietary Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Copyright and Trademark Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction to GeoFrame 2012_SP_2
New Additions to GeoFrame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Operating Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Service Packs and Hot Fixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Hardcopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Data Management
Borehole Set Data Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Data Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Data Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
General ASCII Loader (GAL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Project Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SNAPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Surface Sets Data Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Wells and Boreholes Data Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Seismic
Basemap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Charisma IMain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Charisma SEGY Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Charisma SEGY 2D Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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Charisma SEGY Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Charisma Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Charisma VelLoad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
EZ Seismic Loader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
GeoViz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
IESX Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
IESX Data Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
IESX_Util . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
InDepth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SEGY Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Seis%DV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Synthetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Modeling
CPS-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
GeoPetro
BorStress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Cross Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
GeoPlot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Litho ToolKit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Log Property Mapping (LPM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
PetroStat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
ResSum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
WellPix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
GeoFrame Data Connectors/Bedrock
Bedrock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
GeoFrame Data Connectors - File Based . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
GeoFrame Connector for Petrel Studio Find
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apter 1 Chapter 1
Introduction to GeoFrame 2012_SP_2
GeoFrame 2012_SP_2 provides new tools, features, performance, and quality
improvements to enhance your daily geology and geophysics workflows.
New Additions to GeoFrame
Several new features and enhancements have been implemented, and are highlighted
by the following:
• EZ Seismic Loader has been enhanced to load Charisma 2D and 3D seismic
data. 3D can be loaded as ZGY or native row file format.
• EZ Seismic Loader has been enhanced to load IESX 3D seismic data as ZGY
or native vvol format.
• Basemap crossplot selection posting now receives events from applications
such as Seis%DV, GeoPlot, and LPM with new dialog boxes to control
posting.
• Basemap Planimeters & Volumetrics has been enhanced with access to the
Polygon Selector tool, multiple volumetric parameter settings, and an
Azimuth tool.
• Various InDepth enhancements to Velocity Edit.
• Geology Office Cross Section able to slip/slide Borehole Templates vertically
for correlation as is done in WellPix
• GeoViz scatter set posting improvements.
• Seis%DV synthetics posting priority
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Operating Environment
• Mathematical operations for Borehole Set Data Manager and Surface Set
Data Manager.
• Petrostat workflow - rapid reservoir property computation
• GeoViz log gridding for horizontal wells workflow
• Cross Section and Template marker overposting controls
• Basemap GIS export - new items - more attributes on Boreholes, Fault
Boundaries, Gathers data (polygon or point)
• Delete icon added to Basemap Post Surface Data dialog (Grids, Scatter Sets,
Contours)
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Operating Environment
Service Packs and Hot Fixes
Graphics Card
Hardcopy
Help System
Service Pack GeoFrame 2012_SP_1 must be loaded prior to installing GeoFrame
2012_SP_2. This Service Pack includes Hot Fixes GeoFrame 2012_HF_4 through
GeoFrame 2012_HF_11. There are no other dependencies on any current
GeoFrame 2012 Service Pack or Hot Fix.
GeoFrame 2012_SP_2 has been tested, and is supported, with NVIDIA Kepler 4000
and 2000 graphics on HP Z820, HP Z620, HP Z800, HP Z600, Dell T7600, and Dell
T7500.
GeoFrame 2012_SP_2 was tested with JustPlot 4.3.02 and JustCGM 5.0.05 for 64-
bit and 32-bit versions. These products provide servers for Solaris and Linux. No
patches are known to be required.
Several additional GeoFrame online documents have been rewritten and included in
GeoFrame 2012_SP_2. They are:
• Charisma Utilities
• CPS-3 Model Editor
• IESX Command Line Seismic Loaders
• IESX Data Manager
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• IESX SurfaceSlice
• IESX User Applications
• SeisClass Explore
• DIPLOG to DLIS Converter
• SGA Workflow Charisma
Introduction to GeoFrame 2012_SP_2
Movies
Several movies have been embedded into these release notes. These movies can only
be viewed on Windows systems. The release notes are in PDF format and can be
copied from the baseline to a Windows system. To locate the release notes:
1. Open a GeoFrame xterm.
2. Type the following in the xterm: cd $sp1/gf_userguides.
3. Locate the gf_2012_irn_servpack_sp_2.pdf file.
4. Copy the file to an area where a Windows system can access it.
Open the file on a Windows system, and then click the movie links.
Note: To stop a movie that is playing, press Esc.
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Chapter 2
Data Management
Borehole Set Data Manager
New Features
• You can now perform mathematical operations on existing borehole sets to
create a new borehole set, or edit an existing borehole set. This option is
available when creating or editing a List Type borehole set. Click the
Combine Borehole Sets icon in the Create Borehole Set or Edit
Borehole Set dialog box to open the new Borehole Sets Operations Dialog
dialog box. It contains the following mathematical operations that can be used
with existing borehole sets to create or edit an existing borehole set:
- Blank - Adds the selected borehole set to the Operations list without a
mathematical operation. If additional borehole sets are added to the
Operations list with this field set to blank, the AND operation will be
added to it automatically.
- NOT - Removes the boreholes in the selected borehole set. For example,
BS1 NOT BS2 would include the boreholes in BS1 but not BS2.
- AND - Retains the boreholes that are common to the selected borehole
sets. For example, BS1 AND BS2 would include the boreholes that are in
both BS1 and BS2.
- OR - Keeps the boreholes in the selected borehole sets. For example, BS1
OR BS2 would include the boreholes that are in either BS1 or BS2.
See the online documentation for further details and examples on this new
option.
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• A Find option has been added for List Type borehole sets to the Available
Boreholes section of the Create Borehole Set and Edit Borehole Set dialog
boxes.
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Figure 1
Borehole Set Operations Dialog dialog box
Enhancement
• ITC has been added to the Create Borehole Set dialog box and Edit
Borehole Set dialog box so you can easily send and receive borehole events.
Data Managers
Major Issue Addressed
Data Save
• The down arrow key now works again to go from one row to next row in the
same column for the data managers that have associated spreadsheets, for
example, Marker Data Manager.
Major Issue Addressed
• Data Save no longer abnormally exits when computing the depth range of
depth matched OBMI images.
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General ASCII Loader (GAL)
General ASCII Loader (GAL)
Data Management
Oracle
Major Issues Addressed
• The Generic ASCII Loader no longer abnormally exits when loading LAS
files that contain the Drillers_Total_Depth property.
• GAL now uses the user-supplied Input coordinate system when loading
AZIM, DEVI, and MD to an existing borehole. Prior to this fix, this was
causing incorrect results if the borehole was in a different coordinate system
than the incoming deviation data. This fix corrects the AZIM values of the
incoming data from the user-supplied coordinate system to the Borehole
coordinate system before loading.
Major Issue Addressed
• The catalog import process no longer hangs when using an Oracle 10 server if
client system has not been rebooted for a long time (more than 200 days). The
correct libclntsh.so.10.1 has been released in GeoFrame 2012_SP_2.
Project Manager
SNAPR
Enhancement
• The splash screen that is displayed when entering GeoFrame has been
updated.
Major Issue Addressed
• Proman no longer issues an error message: "Invalid Remote Host" when it
cannot resolve a fully qualified host name from /etc/resolv.conf. The fully
qualified name requirement has been removed.
Major Issues Addressed
• SNAPR no longer fails to make a snapshot when there are a large number of
DSLs defined in the Catalog.
• A SNAPR clone is now set to run multi-user and bulk services locally, even if
the original project was set to run those services remotely.
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Surface Sets Data Manager
• When using dynamic listener registration, SNAPR now updates the listener
host name in the clone initialization parameters to match the local server name
where the clone is being created.
Surface Sets Data Manager
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Enhancements
• Query-based surface sets can now be created. An option list next to Create
that contains Query Type and List Type has been added to the Project
Surface Set Data Manager dialog box. A query-based surface set is dynamic,
as it is based on queries, and will update automatically with surfaces that are
created or loaded that fulfill the query parameters.
• You can now perform mathematical operations on existing surface sets to
create a new surface set or edit an existing surface set. This option is available
when creating or editing a List Type surface set. See parameter details above
in the new features section of Borehole Sets Data Manager.
• A Find option has been added for List Type surface sets to the Available
Surfaces section of the Create Surface Set and Edit Surface Set dialog
boxes.
• ITC has been added to the Create Surface Set dialog box and Edit Surface
Set dialog box so you can easily send and receive surface events.
Major Issue Addressed
• When using the command-line utility, swap_datum, the Geodetic coordinate
system name was not being updated to match the new value for Datum. This
was causing confusion for users. This fix changes the Name to match the new
datum value.
Wells and Boreholes Data Manager
Major Issue Addressed
• Borehole XY locations are no longer lost after loading/selecting a new
deviation survey, due to the bottom depth of the well deviation being shorter
than the old bottom depth entered in the Borehole Editor. The fix also
changes the Bottom Location information to display the Deviation Bottom
Location, and adds the MD field. These changes where made to clear up the
confusion of what is being displayed by the fields.
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Chapter 3
Seismic
Basemap
New Features
• A new Post > Seismic Highlights option allows you to control Seis%DV
crossplot selections and their symbol type and size on the Basemap canvas.
Seis%DV has a crossplot capability, and can send selected points to post in
Basemap. Different classes from a selected seismic line (2D, 3D inline, 3D
crossline, 3D traverse, 3D slice, and 3D sub volumes) can be crossplotted. Two
grids from a seismic horizon can also be crossplotted, as long as grid library
and domain are the same.
The crossplot events are automatically posted as long as the corresponding
ITC receive toggle is on (default is ON), along with color, name, and type of
current selection.
Note: No posting order is available for different selections of points. The
points are posted in the order of selection, first to last, with the last selection
being posted on top.
The Seismic Highlights dialog box consists of two tabs, Contents and
Appearance, that control the posting of the crossplot selections. The Contents
tab is used to toggle ON/OFF the selections to highlight, and gives you
information on the point count, color, name, and type of the selections. The
Appearance tab allows you to choose the symbol type from a palette of 17
choices and a size from an option menu of 5.
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Figure 2
Seismic Highlights dialog box
• The new Interval Highlights option is used to control the posting and
appearance of crossplot data sent from log curves from single and multiple
boreholes and grids.
Each interval highlight is posted in the same way that zones are posted. The
Interval Highlights dialog box shows each interval with a post toggle, color,
borehole name and minimum/maximum depth range. Several list tools are
provided, so that posting order can be controlled, with intervals at the top of
the list being drawn on top. Graphical display of intervals will, by default,
show all intervals in each selection.
Intervals are merged based upon the Z separation between the end of one
segment and the start of the next segment. Filtering, which is independent of
the map’s units, keeps segments whose Z gap is greater than 50 feet. Filtering
is also done for the map projection of the interval. A gap of more than 5 feet is
required to keep separate. A vertical borehole will always end up as a single
interval in Basemap.
Note: For log curve crossposting, boreholes must be posted to populate the
Interval Highlights dialog box.
Note: The color the crossplot points will be posted in Basemap corresponds to
the colors assigned to that selection in Crossplot. The colors cannot be
changed here, but can be changed in the Crossplot Selection Editor.
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Figure 3
Content tab of the Interval Highlights dialog box
The Appearance tab controls the posting of the selected crossplotted values.
You can select how the values are posted, their symbol type, size, line width,
and whether to display tick marks at the intervals ends.
Post As controls the way the intervals are posted on the borehole.
- Symbol at interval top - Displays the selected symbol at the top of the
interval.
- Line along borehole - Displays a line along the borehole for the interval.
- Join end points by straight line - Displays a straight line from the first
point in the interval to the last point in the interval, for the interval.
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Figure 4
Appearance tab of the Interval Highlights dialog box
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Basemap Crossplot Interaction Enhancements Movie
Seismic
Movie Removed
Note: Movies can only be viewed on Windows systems.
• Several new features and enhancements have been added to Tools >
Planimeter & Volumetrics. These include:
- A new Polygon Selection section has been added that allows you to
choose between two modes, Polyline or Polygon. Polygon mode is
typically used to generate volumetric information, and now uses the
Polygon Selector tool in Basemap that allows you to create and save
new polygons or use existing polygons for your areal selections (see
Figure 5 below). Polyline mode allows you to construct a polyline to
measure length and azimuth values (see Figure 6 below).
- Azimuth information has been added to the Results section of the dialog
box. The azimuth information is reported as both Grid North and True
North. As a polyline is drawn on the canvas, the azimuth is reported
interactively in their respective text boxes as the segment(s) are drawn.
When drawing polygons, the azimuth is reported for each segment of the
polygon as it is being drawn.
- You can now generate multiple values for the volumetric parameters. For
example, for a fluid contact, you can enter an initial depth value, the value
increment, and an end value. These values can be entered for any of the
volumetric parameters.
- Volumetric results can now be sent to an Excel-style spreadsheet.
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Figure 5
Enhanced Planimeter & Volumetrics dialog box
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Figure 6
Planimeter & Volumetrics dialog box with Polyline mode selected
Basemap Planimeter& Volumetrics Enhancements Movie
Movie Removed
Note: Movies can only be viewed on Windows systems.
Enhancements
• Borehole names can now be posted next to their velocity location symbol. A
new option, Label Wells, has been added to the Post > Velocity Locations
dialog box, that gives you eight position choices around the velocity location
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to post the name, and also allows a No Label value to have no name posting.
The default is no labeling and only functions when Well Locations is toggled
ON.
• Maps can now be saved without having to close all the open dialog boxes that
are associated with Basemap. A message displays, prompting you to confirm
the save.
• Deletion capabilities have been added to various Post dialog boxes to enable
you to quickly delete data from your GeoFrame project. The deletion
icon has been added to the following dialog boxes:
- Post Surface Data - Allows you to delete grids, scatter sets, and contours.
Only Non-model related grids can be deleted, while model grids, Model
Filter - Interpreted In, Fault Framework, Structural Framework, and
Domain Conversion grids cannot be deleted. There are no restrictions on
contour deletion and all scatter sets, with the exception of those belonging
to Domain Conversion models, can be deleted.
- Post Area of Interest
- Post Inclusive Data Boundaries
- Post Clipping Surface Boundaries - All clipping surface boundaries can
be deleted, except for those belonging to a Framework model.
• You can now set the default for posting scatter set data to annotate values by
editing the BasemapEnvVars.txt file and supplying the line entry:
BMAP_ANNOTATE_SCATTER. An example workflow would be for you to see
scatter data annotated by value specifically when sending scatter data to
Basemap from InDepth. You still have full control over the display through
the dialog box, but by entering BMAP_ANNOTATE_SCATTER, the default
setting will change to annotate.
• Fault boundaries can now be exported as GIS shapefiles. A new option, Fault
Boundaries, has been added to the Input Data Selections section of the Data
> Save GeoFrame Data as GIS dialog box.
• Borehole well symbol number for the top and bottom of the borehole has been
added when exporting to GIS shapefiles.
• Borehole TD has been added for the deviation survey and bottom of the
borehole to the shapefiles when exporting GIS. An MD channel is required for
the deviation survey to TD value on export.
• The Run in Background option in Export to Petrel has been replaced by the
Run option menu with settings of Background, Immediate, and Write File
Only. The default option remains to run in background and Immediate is now
the option to run in foreground on the current map. The last option, Write File
Only, is a new option that allows subsequent manual execution of
bmap_petrel_batch, which is coming in a future release, using the
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generated OutSummary.xml file as a command line argument. The
ORACLE_USERID environment variable must be set prior to running the
command line option.
Major Issues Addressed
• Indexing a project using Petrel > Index Project for Petrel no longer fails if
the project contains a fault cut with one point.
• There is no longer an issue indexing a project using Petrel > Index Project
for Petrel if the project is started from a desktop icon. Prior to this fix, you
would receive an "Error:ORA-01005: null password given; logon denied”
message in the log window.
• Performance has been improved when running the 3D Survey Live Trace
Outline option of the Data > Save Data as GIS option on decimated seismic
data.
• There is no longer an issue auto posting scatter sets and grids via ITC to
Basemap.
• Basemap volumetric calculations are no longer incorrect when the top and the
bottom surfaces used in the volumetric calculation were created using different
grid binsets.
• Saving data as GIS no longer abnormally exits after running exports for an
extended period of time. The issue appeared to occur when choosing an
external path and not referencing it in the project. The abnormal exit occurred
when trying to write to the data source a second time.
• Performance for posting seismic gather locations on Basemap has been
improved.
• Basemap no longer abnormally exits and now properly handles NULL
coordinate systems when using WKT data or shapefiles.
Charisma IMain
Enhancements
• Select Active Fault has been added to Functions > Fault Interpretation to
aid interpreting faults by quickly enabling you to switch between active faults
by selecting the option, moving the cursor to the fault to make it active on the
screen, and clicking MB1. An icon and hotkey C have been enabled to run
the same function.
• Performance has been enhanced for 2D velocity locations when displaying,
unselecting, and zooming/unzooming in IMain-Basemap.
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• Seismic versions can now be locked for 2D and 3D composite displays. A new
option, Apply to selected composite only, has been added to the Seismic
Versions dialog box. When this button is toggled ON, only the part of the
section where you have clicked MB1 will display the new version, the other
sections will retain the original version. When the option is toggled OFF, the
behavior remains as before.
• Multiple velocity locations, both active and passive, can now be selected in
IMain-Basemap without having to make single MB1 clicks by using MB1
click and drag.
Major Issues Addressed
• IMain no longer abnormally exits when restarting sessions with velocity field
crosslines
• In some cases, IMain would not display at least two decimal places for
seismic readouts. This has been corrected to always show at least two decimal
places, depending on the type of seismic displayed.
• An issue with color manipulation with OTF (On-The-Fly) cubes in certain
circumstances has been corrected. When IMain uses OTF cubes, only the
inline is real. Crossline and slice sections are extracted from the inline volume.
However, the color manipulation functionality permits changing the min/max
for OTF crosslines and OTF slices. When this was done, prior to this fix, the
display could become inconsistent. Some information was taken from the OTF
cubes, but the real data samples were taken from the inline volume (and scaled
accordingly). To make data consistent and avoid corrupting the data access, the
color manipulation functionality now synchronizes the OTF cubes with the real
cube. If an inline is modified, OTF slice and crossline cubes are now updated
to the same min/max. If an OTF slice or crossline is modified, the inline and
crossline or slice is updated. The behavior for non-OTF cubes has not been
changed. Their behavior remains the same.
• Posting unique color fill for GIS polygons in IMain now works correctly for
polygons that contain features of the type “MultiPolygon”.
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Major Issue Addressed
• In some cases, SEGY Scan would abnormally exit when scanning SEGY Rev
1 files. This has been corrected.
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Charisma SEGY 2D Load
Seismic
Enhancements
• A Coordinate Scale option has been added to the Line Parameters dialog
box that allows you to manually enter a coordinate scalar. This can be useful
for example, if trace header words 71/72 (for the X/Y scalar) have not been
filled out properly.
• The path and the filename of the SEGY file loaded is now added to the seismic
history.
• The survey lists are now sorted alphanumerically (ABCabc) in SEGY Scan,
SEGY Scale, and SEGY 2D Load.
Charisma SEGY Out
Major Issue Addressed
• Multiple 2D lines can now be output to a single SEGY output file when some
of the 2D lines being exported were corrupted, for example the CDP
information of the sublines was missing. SEGY Out now handles these
corrupted sub-lines better.
Charisma Utilities
Enhancement
• Option 21 connect sections to versions using property_code has been added
to the Charisma Utilities to allow you to connect orphan seismic sections and
cubes to a user-defined version name.
Charisma VelLoad
Major Issues Addressed
• There is no longer an issue when loading ASCII file velocity data using a userdefined
loading format. The row in the file contains the line number but no
shotpoint number. Prior to this fix, only the values for the first shotpoint in the
file would be loaded.
• Using an “&” as a field separator is no longer ignored when creating and using
a user-defined loading format.
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EZ Seismic Loader
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New Features
• The EZ Seismic Loader has been enhanced beyond loading IESX 2D seismic
to being able to load the following:
- Charisma 2D seismic (see Figure 8 below for an example dialog box).
- Charisma 3D seismic
- IESX 3D seismic
3D seismic data can be loaded directly as ZGY, and is automatically registered
for use in GeoFrame or into the native formats of Charisma (row files) and
IESX (.vvol files).
The loaders are spreadsheet loaders and allow you to quickly load 2D seismic
and navigation and 3D seismic into your GeoFrame project. The spreadsheet
format allows you to visually inspect parameters for each 2D line or 3D survey
prior to loading. The loaders use many of the same parameters and options as
the current Charisma and IESX loaders, so experienced loaders should have
no difficulty transitioning to the new EZ Seismic Loaders. Novice loaders will
also benefit from the new loaders as, the workflow to load seismic is easier.
The spreadsheet input, along with their associated parameter settings, can be
retained in saved sessions, and then opened and reused at a later date.
All four loaders can be accessed from the EZ Seismic Loader entry on the
Seismic Catalog. The IESX 3D EZ Loader can also be accessed from IESX
Data Manager > Seismic > EZLoader 3D. To access the loaders, start the EZ
Seismic Loader from the Seismic Catalog to open the EZ Seismic Loader
dialog box (see Figure 7 below). To determine how the loader will open by
default, in Charisma or IESX, the license file(s) are scanned for Charisma
IMain licenses. If any are found, the loader will open by default to the
Charisma loaders. The default startup can be changed by setting one of the
following Options parameters:
- Set project type - Temporarily (for this run) change the project type to
IESX or Charisma.
- Set default project type - Change the default project type on startup to
IESX or Charisma, so each time you access the loader it will open with
that selection until this option is changed.
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Figure 7
EZ Seismic Loader startup dialog box
Please refer to the Charisma/IESX 2D/3D EZ Seismic Loader online help for
detailed information and workflows on the new loaders.
Figure 8
Charisma EZ Seismic Loader 2D dialog box
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EZ Seismic Loader
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Movie Removed
Note: Movies can only be viewed on Windows systems.
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Enhancements
Seismic
• A shotpoint previewer has been added to IESX EZ Seismic Loader 2D. This
new option replaces the Shotpoint increment parameter on the spreadsheet
with Shotpoint Preview, and allows you to review your shotpoint selection
prior to loading a line. Click MB1 in the Shotpoint Preview cell in the
spreadsheet to open the Shotpoint Preview dialog box to report SEG-Y File
Shotpoints, Fixed Shotpoints, and Variable Shotpoints after a 2D line has
been scanned. When you calculate a shotpoint expression, and/or a SP/CDP
relationship, these will be reported too. Toggle ON the shotpoint loading
method you want using MB1 after reviewing the shotpoints in the spreadsheet.
By default, the method of loading selected will be that which was selected
from the new Shotpoint Type spreadsheet option that lists the four shotpoint
loading options.
Figure 9
New IESX EZ Seismic Loader 2D Shotpoint Preview dialog box
• The current layout, parameter selections, and order in the spreadsheet, can
now be saved as the default to be opened each time the loader is started by
selecting Options > Save Current Layout As Default.
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• You can now add/remove SEGY file extensions that will be acceptable for file
selection. When selecting SEGY files to load, only files containing the defined
extensions are considered for loading. The current default extensions are .segy,
.seg, .sgy, and *dat*.
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Figure 10
SEGY File Extension dialog box
• Longer file names can now be used for the 2D IESX EZ Seismic Loader. The
file name can now contain the entire class name, and up to 96 characters for
the survey name. Prior to this fix, you could only have up to 5 characters for
the survey/line name and 5 characters for the class name.
Major Issues Addressed
• The number of samples in the 2D seismic line is now exported correctly when
the EZ Loader spreadsheet is saved as an Excel spreadsheet. Prior to this fix,
the number of samples would export as 0.
• Loading to an existing 2D velocity class no longer appends an extra -VT to the
class name.
• There is no longer an issue when scanning for shotpoints using byte location
17 for 2D as only integer values when readouts are created using IBM floating
as the format type. This was only a scanning problem and did not affect the
actual data loading.
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GeoViz
Seismic
New Features
• A Misc tab has been added to the Well Data > Display > Logs Well Log
Display Parameters dialog box to allow you to clip log displays based on
markers, and to create scatter sets based on the log curve values. The
parameters in the Log Range Clipping section include:
- Top/Bottom - Lists all the markers (source name of the marker is in
parenthesis) that are currently selected for posting. Select the top and
bottom marker to clip the range of the 2D and 3D log displays.
Note: When selecting a marker be sure to pick the marker with the source
that you want as it is given first priority for selection for all the
highlighted boreholes. If a marker is not found with that source name, the
first marker of the same name in the list for that borehole will be used.
- Match Source - Toggle ON to only use markers that have the same
source name as the name selected for the top and bottom markers. If you
have markers in wells that have a different source, they will not be used
for log clipping. When toggled ON, it affects both the top and bottom
selection, but the source values are independent of each other. When
toggled OFF, the behavior is as mentioned above.
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Figure 11
Misc tab in the Well Log Display Parameters dialog box
The parameters in the Scatter Set section include:
- Curve - Select the displayed curves from which you want to create the
scatter set. The choices are Left Curve (default), Right Curve, or 3D
Curve.
- Cutoff - Allows you to set the limits on the log values you want included
in the scatter set. The limits can be greater (>) or less (

GeoViz
Seismic
- # Boreholes - Gives a count of the number of boreholes that are being
used in the scatter set generation after you click Apply.
- # Points - Gives a count of the number of scatter set points that have been
calculated after you click Apply.
- QC Grid - Toggle ON and click Apply to display the grid on the GeoViz
canvas of the log properties for quality control purposes.
- Save/Save Z - Click Save to save the scatter set data as a property with
the log curve name and its group properties under the horizon name
Log_Horizon, for example, Log_Horizon~VSH_10Max. Select Save Z to
save the scatter set data TVDSS values for each data point as a depth
property. The naming convention is similar to the above, except the name
has a Z extension, for example, Log_Horizon~VSH_10Max_Z.
Figure 12
Example of scatter set usage and horizontal wells
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GeoViz Log Curve Properties Movie
GeoViz
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Movie Removed
Note: Movies can only be viewed on Windows systems.
Enhancements
• The View Scatter set dialog box has been enhanced to include the following
new parameters:
- Shape - Allows you to display the scatter points as points (Point), spheres
(Sphere), up arrows (Up), down arrows (Down), or diamonds
(Diamond).
- Property Coloring - Toggle ON to use the color spectrum to color code
the scatter sets property. Toggle OFF to use a single color for the scatter
set points.
- Modify Color Spectrum - Toggle ON to open the Modify Spectrum
dialog box to manipulate (compress, slide, or rotate) the existing color
spectrum, or select a different spectrum.
• Marker loading performance has been improved.
Major Issues Addressed
• Fault surfaces can now be clipped to interpretation and set to restricted. Prior
to this fix, if you turned restrict ON, the clipped interpretation would be turned
off.
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• The default ambient light in the Material Tool has been corrected when in the
drape mode. This issue occurred when the head light was added and the default
surface ambient light was changed from white to match diffuse. This caused a
strange looking tint when applying a color drape (which was only changing the
diffuse). Now the color drape operation changes both values.
• Posting Multiple Trajectories using a cylinder display with a vertical
exaggeration specified no longer causes the cylinders to look deformed. The
more a cylinder became more horizontal, the more deformed it would appear.
• There is no longer an issue with ZGY coordinates being incorrect when
reading many lines in certain cases. There is also no longer a problem
accessing data correctly when skipping lines. This was only an issue in
Charisma GeoViz.
IESX Database
Major Issues Addressed
• Every time a grid file is opened for read, there was an unnecessary lock
request made. If many users were accessing grids at the same time in
Seis%DV, this caused preformance issues, since there was a 1 second wait
between each attempt to get a lock.
• Unnecessary pm superserver locks were being acquired for cursor movement
when performing class readouts in Seis%DV that could have had an impact on
performance. This fix modifies the readouts in Seis%DV to avoid calls to the
lock server when reading out amplitudes and class names.
• There was a rare circumstance when opening a saved session where grids
could not be posted due to a file limit that had been reached that has been
fixed. This was caused by a very large number of slice volumes in the project,
and how these files would remain needlessly open after the session was
opened.
IESX Data Manager
IESX Data Manager Seismic
Major Issues Addressed
• Multiple classes can now be loaded to the same 2D seismic line when using
the Fixed mode for the shotpoint increment.
• There is no longer an issue with loading 2D seismic gathers when the
ensemble number is derived from CDP relation instead of being accessed from
the trace header.
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• There is no longer an issue when exporting SEGY seismic using SEGY
export with the shotpoint scalar values in bytes 201 through 204 alternating
between -1000 and -10000.
• The Bypass Integrity check location has been corrected in the seismic loader,
that had caused mis-padding and data deletion where there were mid-survey
gaps.
• In IESX Data Manager > Seismic > Report, if a Report type other than
Seismic data report is selected, the selection no longer gets reset to Seismic
data report when you make another line selection (2D) or class selection.
• There is no longer an issue with the Z range when creating a slice volume
when the TFS/DFS of the slice volume is not a multiple of the sample rate.
Note: Any existing slice volumes where the sample is different than the
vertical volume, and the TFS/DFS is not a multiple of the slice sample rate
must be deleted and re-generated
• There is no longer an issue of locking up the Slice volume generation dialog
box when attempting to generate slices immediately after loading the seismic
volume.
• Some users were unable to see the flattening parameters in the Volume
Flattening dialog box in Seismic > Flattening unless they resized the dialog
box. This has been corrected.
IESX Data Manager Interpretation
Enhancement
• Horizons and faults can now be exported from Interpretation > Export using
user-defined formats with segment IDs that are greater than 999. The
maximum segment ID is now only limited by the number of columns defined
in the user-defined format.
Note: The pre-defined formats have not changed, and the segment ID
maximum remains 999.
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Enhancement
• An additional check has been added in the IESX_Key_Map entries options 80
and 81 for invalid mis-matched To_Entity_Id and To_Entity_Table elements in
the table. Basically, it verifies the To_Entity_Id exists in the To_Entity_Table it
references, otherwise, the item is flagged as bad and reported in the case of
option 80, or deleted in the case of option 81.
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InDepth
Seismic
Enhancements
• You can now select multiple active locations in Velocity Edit. The ability to
send and receive these multiple locations has been added to all velocity
location posting applications, such as IMain Basemap and Basemap.
• You now have the ability to combine all of the samples from multiple active
curves together to fit a linear regression line through. The fitted line can then
be manually edited and saved for a group of wells, if you desire. This would
allow, for example, a bulk assign of a Vo K function for a group of wells.
Single fitting can be accomplished by either selecting a single active location
or opening the Velocity Function Fitting dialog box and using the Selected
(No Active Grouping) Velocity Locations Selection option. The options
Active, Active and Passive, and All combine all active samples together.
• Velocity Edit now opens using two frames whenever a linear velocity layer is
the initial layer selected. One frame displays a Time versus Depth graph and
the other frame displays an Interval Velocity versus Depth graph. These two
frames provide a better quality control of the linear velocity data.
• The VelocityEdit Display dialog box in Velocity Edit has been completely
updated. The selected active and passive locations are individually listed in the
Locations section where you can change their posting priorities. You can also
change the posting properties of a group of velocity locations, or set them on
an individual basis. The following describes some of the new features
available in the enhanced dialog box:
- Locations - Lists each active and passive location selected with its Status
(Active or Passive), whether the location has been clipped to fall within
the range of the active layer, and its color.
- Display Attributes - Allows you to update the display settings of the
selected locations on an individual or highlighted group basis. The
options are:
• Clip To Active Layer - Allows you to clip one or more selected velocity
locations to the layer that is currently active.
• Color - Allows you to change the color of the selected velocity locations
from the default value to another color from a 65-color palette.
• Line Style - Allows you to change the line style of the velocity curve of
the selected velocity locations to a solid, dotted, or dashed line from an
option list. You can also choose not to have a line displayed.
• Line Width - Allows you to change the width of the velocity curve displayed,
of the selected velocity locations, to one of five thicknesses.
• Symbol - Six symbol types are available to post the knee points of your
velocity curve of the selected velocity locations. You can also choose
not to post a symbol. The default is No Symbol.
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• Symbol Size - Allows you to change the size of the symbol displayed
from the selected velocity locations to one of three sizes.
Display Attributes can be locked ( ) to allow you to retain existing
display settings for attributes and not have them altered when you make
changes to other display attributes that are not currently locked. When
attributes are locked, the display parameter selections are disabled.
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Figure 13
Enhanced VelocityEdit Display dialog box
• Multiple velocity locations, both active and passive, can now be selected in the
Velocity Edit > Select Velocity Locations dialog box without having to make
single MB1 clicks by using MB1 click-and-drag.
• Performance has been enhanced when sending/receiving velocity locations
between InDepth and Basemap, and InDepth and IMain Basemap.
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Velocity Edit Enhancements Movie
Seismic
Movie Removed
Note: Movies can only be viewed on Windows systems.
• A new option, Assign to Current Model any Grid in Project, has been
added to the Surface Data Selector when using Assign to replace or assign
grids to the model. This option allows you to select any grid in the project to
assign to different layers.
An existing workflow was to create the initial InDepth model with its time
and depth grids, then copy and modify the grids in an external app such as
CPS-3. These newly saved grids could not be selected in InDepth because
they were never created by InDepth. To allow you to select these grids, the
Assign to Current Model any Grid in Project new context target was created
to list all grids in the project to choose from. This context target is available for
all cells where an assignment can be made.
Note: It does not perform any validation checks upon assignment. This option
is recommended for use by experienced InDepth users, so as not to select a
grid with incorrect units or domain attribute.
• All fitting methods for the linear velocity function type are now allowed to use
the V0 Datum control. The V0 Datum is assigned to the Origin attribute of a
V_0 scatter set or the data boundary set attribute of a spatial constant. The V0
Datum V_0 pair define a point where the fitting line of the velocity function
must pass through.
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• You can now set the default for posting scatter set data to annotate values by
editing the BasemapEnvVars.txt file and supplying the line entry:
BMAP_ANNOTATE_SCATTER. An example workflow would be for you to see
scatter data annotated by value, specifically when sending scatter data to
Basemap from InDepth. You still have full control over the display through
the dialog box, but by entering BMAP_ANNOTATE_SCATTER, the default
setting will become to annotate.
• The Preferred toggle in the Selected Borehole Velocity Logs section of the
Velocity Set Manager dialog box now has popup bubble help included to
explain what its use is.
• The Filter Data in Table dialog box accessed from a Filter Data in Table
icon in the Available Borehole Velocity Logs section of the Velocity Set
Manager now has a Close button.
• The Selected function name located on the Velocity Function Fitting dialog
box in Velocity Edit has been changed to Selected (No Active grouping) to
better indicate to you that this option will not group the active locations during
the fitting calculation. The three other dialog boxes that use this same toggle
(Model Intersection Computation, Velocity Consistency Check, and
Velocity Function Error) have the label set to Selected, since they do not
group locations for the calculations that they perform.
• The borehole name used to calculate the error estimation has been included in
the coefficient and error estimation text fields near the bottom of the Velocity
Edit window. A frame around these fields and the title of the frame contains
the borehole that is used. The highest priority active borehole in the display is
used as the selected frame's active borehole.
• The Activity_Parameters.TXT file used in InDepth Edit Task Parameter
Details was modified to set the range of depth values to 10-100 m and the time
values to 4-20 ms. The minimum values cannot be altered in the Task
Parameter Details dialog box, but the maximum values can. No projects
should exist that use a minimum resolution below the current values because
these values have existed since the UDVE logic was first implemented. The
maximum limit can be changed because it was not clear as to what users chose
as a maximum value in their projects. The current default limits should cover
95% of all cases.
A new feature added to the interface is the snapping to whole numbers. Now
you cannot select fractional resolution values. In practice, you should be
selecting whole numbers. This was added for convenience.
Note: If your model already contains a DEPTH_RESOLUTION or
TIME_RESOLUTION parameter that exceeds the maximum range specified in
the Activity_Parameters.TXT file, the scales will adjust to show the model's
current resolution as the maximum value. The parameter must be deleted to
show the actual new defaults.
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Major Issues Addressed
Seismic
• The interval velocity and average velocity function types now clip the output
velocity grid to the limits that the you specify in the Limits > Velocity
Function Constraints dialog box. The clipping occurs for the gridding tasks
only. It will be applied for every gridding technique except Constant. If you
enter a constant value, it is assumed that you want this specific value to be
used, regardless of the input data or limits. For all other gridding techniques,
(Convergent, Radial Basis, C1 Triangulation) the clipping will occur.
• The limits for the UDVE velocity layers defined in InDepth no longer have an
issue of occasionally getting randomly set to 0.
• In some cases prior to GeoFrame 2012, there were possible inconsistencies in
unit conversions for InDepth models that used a UDVE. Now any model that
uses a UDVE that is time stamped prior to GeoFrame 2012 will open a
warning message informing you of possible inconsistencies in unit conversions
so you can manually correct the UDVE for a ms>s conversion or a s>ms
conversion.
You will be asked to open the UDVE editor, inspect the equation for proper
unit conversions, and then resave the function. This process will write a
parameter in the database, indicating that you have inspected the UDVE. The
warning message for this model/layer pair will then no longer be displayed.
• The Seismic Reference Datum (SRD) now changes correctly after you set the
starting velocity in a linear function to be a surface rather than the SRD.
However, after the calculations were run, the option was updated to be the
correct starting velocity and not the SRD. This was a minor issue, but could
have confused you if you paid close attention to the information in the boxes
while setting up InDepth.
• The VelocityEdit Domain dialog box in Velocity Edit contains Set Display to
set the axis and line type to a predefined format depending on the velocity
function for the active layer. Selecting Set Display now changes the display
and does not wait until a velocity location curve is added to the display. Set
Display now modifies the axis immediately, even if no velocity location is
present in the display.
• The Velocity Edit dialog boxes now respond to any shared checkshot express
interest events. The Select Velocity Locations dialog box, the VelocityEdit
Display dialog box, and the main Velocity Edit plot window have all been
modified to respond to changes made to a shared checkshot. These changes
include reassignment, modification, or removal. The borehole name used for
the velocity location is now also monitored so that the Select Velocity
Location dialog box will show the correct name of the location if you change
the borehole name.
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• There was an issue using SRD as the V_0 intercept that has been corrected.
Now, the depth value at the intersection of the velocity trace with the datum
grid is used to calculate the V_0 at that depth value. The linear velocity
equation is displayed differently when using a datum other than SRD. It now
shows the equation as V_0_Datum + k( Z - Z_Datum). This equation is
equivalent to V_0 + kZ when Z_Datum is equal to 0.
You can now change the datum grid in the Task Parameters Details dialog
box in InDepth, and Velocity Edit will automatically recalculate the correct
coefficients.
The graphical editing functionality also no longer reverts back to an intercept
at 0, and now uses the user-supplied datum for the intercept.
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Major Issue Addressed
Seis%DV
• Selected traces from files that are larger than 2 GB can now be previewed in
the SEGY viewer. Prior to this fix, you would receive a information message
stating that the trace count is too large for this version.
New Features
• Synthetic posting has been enhanced to allow you to select multiple SREF
names for posting. The Available Synthetics section in the Synthetics tab of
the Borehole Appearance Management dialog box has been updated to allow
you to select multiple names to post. If more than one SREF for the selected
names is found for a borehole, the latest time stamped SREF is used for
posting. This may be overridden by the Preferred option. Two new options
were added to enhance the posting of synthetics:
- Preferred - Toggle ON to use the SREF contained in the Preferred Log
Collection, regardless of any other setting made.
- Latest - Toggle ON to post the latest SREF curve available for the
borehole, unless overridden by the Preferred option.
On screen synthetic log selection has also been added. You can double-click a
posted synthetic to bring up the Select log curve for borehole dialog box
where you can select a different synthetic to post on a borehole basis. This new
selection is temporary for the current display only, unless you add the synthetic
to the Preferred Log Collection and turn ON Preferred in the Borehole
Appearance Management dialog box.
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Bubble help has been added to readout the current synthetic and borehole
name.
Seismic
• Several Seis%DV dialog boxes have been converted from modal to modeless
dialog boxes to enhance usability. This means that you can leave the modeless
dialog box open and perform other actions without having to close the dialog
box. The following options have had their dialog boxes updated:
- Define > Display spec
- Define > Annotation
- Define > Borehole Appearance
- User > Preferences
Seis%DV Synthetic Posting Enhancement Movie
Movie Removed
Note: Movies can only be viewed on Windows systems.
Enhancements
• The maximum end time/depth value has been increased from 50,000 to
100,000 in the Seismic Line Selection dialog box.
• You can now use CTRL-SHIFT-MB2 to perform real time scrolling on the
Seis%DV canvas. Prior to this enhancement, you were limited to using
CTRL-SHIFT-MB1.
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Note: When using CTRL-SHIFT-MB2, you must keep the CTRL and SHIFT
keys depressed. This is not required when using CTRL-SHIFT-MB1.
• Additional icons have been added to the icon bar. The number of icons
available has been increased from 26 to 40.
• Performance has been improved when crossplotting 2D and 3D seismic data.
A limit of 2,000,000 samples has also been put in place for 2D and 3D seismic.
Major Issues Addressed
• There are no longer issues with incidence angle posting on depth gathers
displays. The trace offset annotation posting and readout has also been
changed. The values are now displayed in the user preferences scale (English /
Metric) if the trace offset units in the volume header are some flavor of length,
otherwise, the values are displayed as stored in the trace headers.
• Crossplotting seismic traverses now functions correctly. Prior to this fix, the
trace limits of the traverses were being incorrectly clipped.
• One-line help has been improved for the Foldout icons.
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Enhancement
• Different Sonic and other log curves can now be selected in the Sonic/Density/
Shear Selection dialog box without first having to remove the previously
selected ones from the Selected Curves list.
Major Issues Addressed
• There is no longer an issue when performing wavelet extraction using the
closest 2D line option. This only occurred for 2D lines that have some missing
XY locations.
• There is no longer an issue creating AVO synthetics when using the anti-alias
method.
• There is no longer an issue creating AVO synthetics using time-variant
wavelets.
• There was an issue when trying to remove CrossPlot highlights on a Log
panel. This has been corrected.
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Chapter 4
Modeling
CPS-3
Major Issues Addressed
• Under certain circumstances, when running Operations > Grid > Tie Grid to
Data CPS-3 would hang and you would have to restart CPS-3. This issue has
been corrected.
• There is no longer an issue with posting the data range value labels on the
Color-shading Palette when posting scatter set data as bubble maps. Prior to
this fix, the labels would not post.
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Chapter 5
GeoPetro
BorStress
Major Issue Addressed
• The Stress Regime Indicator can now be displayed again.
Cross Section
Enhancement
• Interactive slip-sliding of boreholes along vertical hinges for easier correlation
is now available. Vertical shifting on any Template in a Cross Section can
now be done by placing the mouse cursor along the right border of the
Template. The cursor changes from the arrow pointer to a hand cursor for
this operation, and then you simply drag the template to the desired location
using MB1. All vertical moves can be reverted to their original depths and
TVDSS and TWOTIM structural settings restored by selecting MB3 > Depth
Reset.
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GeoPetro
Cross Section Slip/Slide Movie
GeoPlot
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Movie Removed
Note: Movies can only be viewed on Windows systems.
GeoPlot
Major Issues Addressed
• It is no longer too easy to accidentally enter Transient mode in Cross Section.
Prior to this fix, if you moved the borehole header area even one pixel (perhaps
by a jittery double click), Cross Section would go into Transient mode. The
negative side effect of this was that all of the interwell correlations were
removed and your only recourse was to close and reopen the Cross Section.
• In some cases, there was an issue with the Depth Display Units of a cross
section not displaying in the correct Project units. They would display using
the default (Feet) regardless of whether the Project units were in meters or
manually selecting Meters. This has been corrected.
Major Issue Addressed
• All 90 symbols are now active from the Symbols section of the CrossPlot tab
in the Display Attributes Editor dialog box. Prior to this fix, only the first
three symbols were available for selection.
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Litho ToolKit
Litho ToolKit
GeoPetro
Major Issue Addressed
• The borehole list now remembers your previous selection so you do not have
to redo the selection process when you add boreholes to the borehole list for
either the Data Selection or Classifications tabs. This had been an issue when,
for example, you forgot a borehole or wanted to change the list, so you clicked
Select again and the original selections were removed.
Log Property Mapping (LPM)
Major Issue Addressed
PetroStat
• LPM now sees manually entered and loaded zone properties. What is meant
by seeing the zone property data, is that those properties manually added in the
Zone Data Manager to the property version are now seen in the Properties
Selector under Data Analysis, even if the property version was built, but not
populated with ResSum.
Enhancement
ResSum
• Summation capability has been added to PetroStat. The summation output is
scatter sets, and processing intervals can be specified using a channel or a
layer. The scatter data position (X, Y, Z) for each borehole is determined as the
True Vertical Depth Subsea (TVDSS) midpoint of the layer. The summation
calculation is always in Measured Depth (MD), regardless of whether the well
is deviated.
Major Issues Addressed
• There was a ResSum Computation problem where no Litho thickness was
calculated if the summation model had a zero thickness zone. This was solved
by extending the litho thickness test for zero thickness zones.
• There is no longer an abnormal exit when launching a Transient Template if
ResSum zones do not have layer.
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Template
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• Markers can be displayed on the left side of the Template. When markers are
displayed on the left side, no over-posting of marker names will occur.
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WellPix
Major Issues Addressed
• The scaling of the SP log in is now retained in saved sessions. Prior to this fix,
if you opened a saved session that contained an SP log, the scale settings
would revert to the minimum/maximum of the SP log.
• You no longer have to exit WellPix to open a saved session to receive the
correct log scale values. Prior to this fix, for example, if you had a session that
contained GR logs scaled from 0-150, then changed the scale in one track for
the GR logs to 0-100, and reopened the original saved session, all the GR logs
would have a 0-100 scale rather than the 0-150 scale.
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Chapter 6
GeoFrame Data Connectors/Bedrock
Bedrock
Major Issues Addressed
• Checkshots that do not have a TVD channel can now be transferred to Petrel.
• There is no longer an issue transferring wells to Petrel when their surface
locations are in a Geodetic projection system (latitude/longitude). The project’s
Display Coordinate System is now used for the transfer. Prior to this fix, a
“cms_DatumShiftError” error was returned during the transfer, or the
transferred wells were cork screwed.
• Grids that are generated with an origin that is not one of the corner points of
the seismic survey are no longer offset from the survey, and now display in the
correct location.
• Structural grids created from non-seismic grid libraries can be loaded again to
Petrel via Bedrock. This was a problem in GeoFrame 2012_SP_1.
• Petrel no longer hangs when seismic is selected for transfer, and no directory
paths exist in the Bedrock profile.
• There is no longer an exception error given in Petrel when trying to transfer in
an empty GeoFrame interpretation model.
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GeoFrame Data Connectors - File Based
Major Issue Addressed
GeoFrame Data Connectors - File Based
• Duplicate boreholes are no longer exported to Petrel when they are posted in
multiple borehole sets in Basemap. This issue occurred when using the filebased
transfer method.
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Chapter 7
GeoFrame Connector for Petrel Studio
Find
GeoFrame Connector for Petrel Studio Find
Major Issues Addressed
• There is no longer an issue when loading depth seismic data. Prior to this fix,
the seismic data would load in the time, rather than the depth domain.
• The Petrel (process) progress bar no longer stalls at a non-100% value even
though Studio load has completed.
• Under some conditions, a connection could not be made to Oracle servers. The
failure to connect was that the GeoFrame Studio Indexer in DEM (Data
Environment Manager) connects with SERVICE_NAME= and
SERVER=DEDICATED. The Studio Indexer for GeoFrame was modified so
that SERVER=DEDICATED is removed, and if there is a failure to connect
using SERVICE_NAME=, then SID= is tried instead.
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